Amazon Quick integration with time-series databases for market intelligence using MCP

Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration in Amazon Quick transforms how financial analysts access time-series market intelligence, removing the need for complex database queries. As a financial analyst, you navigate millions of stock trades flowing through markets every second, searching for patterns that drive trading decisions. Financial institutions often use time series databases to analyze high-frequency … Read more

What Burndown Charts Miss About Real Software Delivery

This article argues that common software-delivery metrics such as burndown charts, velocity tracking, and percentage-complete estimates misrepresent how software is actually built. Because development is exploratory, nonlinear, and shaped by discovery, the author contends that demos, narratives, and shipped outcomes provide a more accurate picture of progress than process metrics designed primarily for reporting and … Read more

Platform Engineering Will Eat Software Engineering and That’s a Good Thing

I’ve been watching a slow convergence over the past 3 years and I think it’s time to name it. Platform engineering is not a specialisation of software engineering. It is becoming the context in which all software engineering happens. The distinction that used to exist product engineers who build features, platform engineers who build the … Read more

How to Architect a Scalable AI Tech Stack

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed how businesses operate, compete, and deliver value to their customers. At the heart of this transformation lies a critical yet often overlooked element: the AI tech stack. Building intelligent solutions requires more than just cutting-edge algorithms or massive datasets. It demands a carefully architected foundation that … Read more

Your MVP Is Probably Too Big

A lot of MVPs stop being “minimum” somewhere around the second planning session. A dashboard gets added because investors might ask for it. Permissions because enterprise customers may eventually need them. Analytics because every serious product has analytics. A settings page. An admin panel. An onboarding flow with tooltips. And slowly, the product stops being … Read more

Computex 2026: All the news and announcements

Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more.  Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel is launching two new custom chips made … Read more

Xbox and PlayStation have a lot to prove

Things are bad out there. Despite 2026 shaping up to be a great year when it comes to actual games, it couldn’t really be worse for the people that make them or the industry as a whole. Hardware prices keep going up, layoffs have shown no signs of stopping, and even big-budget titles backed by … Read more